2015-01-14 OpenStack - Ryan Aydelott

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Traditionally, High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters have been purpose-built systems that are statically defined and deployed. But in the Cloud, we can move systems via software, allowing users to dynamically customize the system architecture to suit their workflow.  

While still young, HPC and the Cloud may be best described as “All Terrain Computing” due to its flexibility in tackling a variety of tasks. As an example, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is building an experimental cloud architecture running on a custom Openstack implementation.  

OpenStack, which began in 2010 as a joint project of NASA and RackSpace, is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources. The infrastructure can be controlled via many software tools whether they are web-based, command-line or of the RESTful API variety.